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Posted on 08/11/2025 5:55:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
In the hazy impressions of memory, some may even recall it fondly: The AOL dial-up internet service that those of a certain age associate with the World Wide Web is coming to a close.
The company, also known by its “You’ve got mail” greeting and the CD trial discs — so many CDs — made the announcement on its website.
“AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet. This service will no longer be available in AOL plans,” the web provider said.
Absent the wireless signals of the modern day, dial-up connected to the internet using a conventional telephone line, emitting a distinctive, high-pitched chirping sound in the process.
AOL, now part of Yahoo, said the dial-up service, along with the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, will be discontinued on Sept. 30.
America Online was famous for its free trial discs, which seemed to be everywhere in the 1990s when the internet was gaining steam in households across the United States and beyond.
It changed its name to just AOL in 2006. Verizon sold AOL and Yahoo to private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion in 2021.
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I’m boxing up stuff to move. Yesterday I opened a box and inside was my Verizon DSL Modem.
I hope they haven’t been waiting all these years for me to send it back...
I also have a DSL phone filter around here somewhere.
Send it to the Smithsonian................
Didn’t know AOL was still in business.
I traded dial up for Satellite back in 2016 and it served me well. Now trees are growing up and VIASAT informed me at my recent one and only service call to fiz a coax issue that they would not upgrade my system. Starlink and a couple days with a chain saw may make their service possible when the time comes as Starlinks north alignment overcomes my terrain issues. In the mean time people less than a quarter mile away enjoy the X-Finity/Comcast service that my taxes and fees subsidized in the rural connect programs in the new subdivisions.
My AT&T cable servicing all customers on my road fell to the ground 5 years ago and they ain't been back. I use my cell to connected to my satellite WIFI for home service. because like COMCAST the cell companies snookered rural citizens taxes and fees as well to obtain "CHOICE" rural customers.
Just remember Biden’s billions that were spent on EV Chargers...........
Well...I guess I can stop trying to figure out how to put a cell phone into an acoustic coupler...
Oh, I'm reminded of it daily when I drive up to Norris Dam and see the "FREE" EV stations. This from a federal utility who did rolling blackouts the first time in his history a few Christmases ago. The same federal agency that when Norris Dam was built in the 1930's refused electricity to my grandparents and Mom who was still young living about 5 miles from the dam because it would spoil the scenic value of the area. They finally got power I think after WW2.
I have a friend who still only has an AOL email address.
The EV, Solar Farms, Wind Farms, have been a criminal act done upon this nation. I have enough electrical background even as a maintenance mechanic to understand the massive amount of power the nation needs. We do not have the grid for EV’s. Solar and Wind could never provide anything beyond a small fraction of meeting that demand. The whole thing has been one huge fleece the taxpayer rip off the DEMs have played for nearly three decades now every time they get in the White House.
We still have AT&T land line that I want to get rid of but my husband insists on keeping. I hope AT&T gets rid of it for me.
I guess I can unplug my 56k modem now.
My first was EarthLink...in the Atlanta area. They had a national presence for a while until they got bought out.
When AT&T was busted up it did more harm splitting it up than good. AT&T owns far more than it did before their forced split up. They bought back all their Bell System and bought more as well as cellular services.
AT&T up until the split was ran like a utility. Meaning ample manpower to maintain their lines and equipment. When AT&T split the workers who went with AT&T were retired or laid off within two years. When they bought up what they had before same process. Nothing is being maintained. My dad did 45 years with Southern Bell, South Central Bell, and Bellsouth under their name changes. Dad stayed with Bell South until retirement. Ironically thereafter AT&T bought BellSouth and his retirement came from there afterwards.
Under the old system everyone who paid a minimal fee got service whether rural or city. They could not charge for extra poles etc. Look in my previous post and see what X-Finity wanted to charge me for service to my road $30K until they ran a few more spans and got to my road and then only wanted $15k from people on my road for service.
All I have is Verizon landline. If I’m not home I’m not available.
There are many locations near big cites that cell phones don’t have coverage. Where I worked before retiring no one could use a cell phone in the building except by hanging out the window. Coffee breaks were taken in the parking lot just to get a connection.
Does this ending dialup include all landline service?
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